Background Children's environmental health (CEH), the branch of pediatrics that studies the
influence of the environment on children's health, has grown substantially in the past 3 …

Environmental pediatrics, the branch of pediatric medicine that studies the influence of the
environment on children's health, has in the past decade grown exponentially. Rising rates …

The environment of children today is different from that of 50 years ago. Today there exist
more than 80,000 synthetic chemicals, nearly all of them invented since World War II. 40 …

P ediatric environmental health is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness caused
by preconception, prenatal, perinatal, and pediatric exposures to environmental hazards; …

Few pediatricians receive training in environmental health, yet accumulating research
shows that a disproportionate burden of exposure from environmental toxicants (man-made …

This mini-monograph was developed to highlight the experiences of the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)/US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) …

In the preface1 to this supplement, we pointed out that pediatricians and other clinicians
have made major contributions to the discovery of environmental toxicants. Many acute …

As Kenneth Olden, PhD, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
has stated,“A little kid goes from a single cell to a laughing sociable, intelligent, friendly …

Over the past four decades, the prevalence of autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and
birth defects have grown substantially among children around the world. Not coincidentally …

The knowledge that the environment in which we live, grow and play, can have negative or
positive impacts on our health and development is not new. However the recognition that …